Photo: Anonymous Unknown author · CC BY-SA 4.0In Moulins, the council took a second round
Benoit Faivre has been mayor of Moulins since March 27, 2026, elected by the 33 members of the municipal council. At the March 2026 municipal elections, ENSEMBLE POUR MOULINS won 24 of the 33 seats in the second round on March 22, 2026, with 46.6% of the votes. Moulins is part of the Communauté d'agglomération Moulins Communauté.
March 2032
Councils are elected for six years; the council elects the mayor.
Register to vote ↗Throughout this page, the median in Allier and the France median are the median of compared communes (those with an overall grade), each figure its own median.
What stands out about Moulins’s town hall
Decided in a second round
No list won half the votes in the first round, when 6 lists stood. In the second round on March 22, 2026, ENSEMBLE POUR MOULINS came first with 46.6% and took 24 of the 33 seats; the other lists share the remaining 9. Who’s in charge ↓
Turnout below most communes
51.9% of registered voters in Moulins voted on March 15, 2026: lower than in 71% of compared French communes. The median of compared communes in Allier was 59.2%; across France, 57.4%. 2026 elections ↓
More debt per resident than most
Moulins owed €21.9M at the end of 2025, €1,101 per resident: higher than in 74% of compared French communes (France median €748). That equals 116% of a year’s running costs. The commune’s money ↓
Results as the Interior ministry published them; accounts from the DGFiP via OFGL. Nothing here is graded.
The council the voters chose
Seats as the March 2026 results gave them, one dot a seat.
- ENSEMBLE POUR MOULINS2415 community seats
- MOUL1NS 202674 community seats
- moulins en avant!21 community seat
As elected in the second round, March 22, 2026.
The list that comes first gets half the seats; the rest are shared in proportion among the lists with 5% or more, the winner included. So the winning list always has a majority. The same vote gave Moulins 20 seats on the council of the Communauté d'agglomération Moulins Communauté (community seats).
Source: Interior ministry, 2026 municipal election results (March 15 and 22), subject to corrections and appeals.
4 authorities share the work
The commune is the tier closest to residents; the intercommunality, the département and the région do the rest.
Births, marriages and deaths, the electoral roll, nursery and primary schools, local roads, planning permission, the municipal police, and what else the council takes on.
Mayor: Benoit Faivre · 33 councilors
The services its communes share: usually waste collection, economic development and planning documents; often water and local buses.
Social aid (RSA, care for older and disabled people, child protection), collèges, the département’s roads, and funding for fire and rescue.
Lycées, regional trains (TER) and coaches, economic development and job training.
Who to ask
The usual split of powers (service-public.fr); an intercommunality’s exact remit varies, so check its website for waste, water and buses.
Membership: COG 2026 (INSEE); intercommunality type: BANATIC, January 2025. What each tier does: service-public.fr.
From the mayor to the intercommunality
The officials as the Interior ministry’s register lists them, and the council by list.
- 1Mayorsince March 27, 2026Benoit Faivre
- 2Deputy mayors9 adjoints, elected by the councilJulien CarpentierRosine Nigon-MansardDamien JacquetMélanie RamisMathieu GeffrayRégine BatillatThierry ChampagnatCécile de Breuvand+1 more
- 3Moulins municipal council33 seats by listENSEMBLE POUR MOULINS 24 · MOUL1NS 2026 7 · moulins en avant! 2
- 4Communauté d'agglomération Moulins CommunautéMoulins holds 20 seatsCommunity councilors are drawn from the council lists in the same vote.
Source: Interior ministry, national register of elected officials (RNE), August 11, 2026.
The 33 members of the Moulins municipal council
The mayor and 9 deputy mayors first, then the councilors.
| Name | Office | Since |
|---|---|---|
| Benoit Faivre | Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Julien Carpentier | 1er adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Rosine Nigon-Mansard | 2ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Damien Jacquet | 3ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Mélanie Ramis | 4ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Mathieu Geffray | 5ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Régine Batillat | 6ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Thierry Champagnat | 7ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Cécile de Breuvand | 8ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Hamza Budak | 9ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
Show the full council (33)
| Name | Office | Since |
|---|---|---|
| Benoit Faivre | Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Julien Carpentier | 1er adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Rosine Nigon-Mansard | 2ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Damien Jacquet | 3ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Mélanie Ramis | 4ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Mathieu Geffray | 5ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Régine Batillat | 6ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Thierry Champagnat | 7ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Cécile de Breuvand | 8ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Hamza Budak | 9ème adjoint au Maire | March 27, 2026 |
| Gaëlle Barret | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Philippe Baudier | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Jérôme Bernard | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Maud Betiaux | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Eric Dagois | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Pierre de Nicolay | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Marilou Gonthier | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Jennifer Hieu | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Marjorie Labelle | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Roger Litaudon | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Stefan Lunte | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Yannick Monnet | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Catherine Moretti | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Béatrice Moroy | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Davy Murgue | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Kevin Pontonnier | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Adeline Poupeau | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Clémence Richard | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Samuel Scampucci | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Adrien Soucachet | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Isabelle Sourdot | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Valerie Valvin | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
| Alicia Vitta Hamada | Conseiller municipal | March 22, 2026 |
Names and offices as the Interior ministry’s national register of elected officials (RNE) published them on August 11, 2026, written as it writes them. Public role only. Later resignations and replacements aren’t shown.
The council: same source as Who represents Moulins, above.
How Moulins voted in March 2026
6 lists stood in the first round; none won half the votes, so a second round followed.
6,587 votes cast for a list
6,762 of 12,595 registered voters in Moulins voted.
66 blank and 109 spoilt ballots, not counted in the shares.
6,414 votes cast for a list · no seats given out: a second round followed
6,543 of 12,600 registered voters in Moulins voted.
58 blank and 71 spoilt ballots, not counted in the shares.
Turnout, first round · March 15, 2026
Shares are of the votes cast for a list, leaving out blank and spoilt ballots. Lists in vote order; the colors only tell the lists apart.
2026 elections: same source as Who’s in charge, above.
Moulins spends €1,365 per resident a year
The commune’s consolidated accounts: main and annexed budgets, transfers between them removed.
Per resident, 2025 · against compared communes
Spending and debt per resident, 2018 to 2025
Moulins owed €21.9M at the end of 2025, €1,101 per resident, higher than in 74% of compared French communes, equal to 116% of a year’s running costs.
Show year by year
| Year | Spending | Investment | Debt | Debt in all |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | €1,365 | €419 | €1,101 | €21.9M |
| 2024 | €1,386 | €386 | €1,096 | €21.8M |
| 2023 | €1,528 | €489 | €1,083 | €21.7M |
| 2022 | €1,393 | €468 | €1,047 | €20.7M |
| 2021 | €1,261 | €393 | €980 | €19.7M |
| 2020 | €1,171 | €226 | €928 | €18.8M |
| 2019 | €1,261 | €389 | €973 | €19.8M |
| 2018 | €1,121 | €251 | €1,021 | €20.8M |
Source: OFGL, consolidated commune accounts 2018–2025 (DGFiP); 2025 provisional.
The 11th highest debt per resident of 41 communes its size
The 40 compared communes nearest in population, debt per resident at the end of 2025.
Lowest: Hem, €2. Highest: Sanary-sur-Mer, €2,752.
Have a say in Moulins
French citizens register online or at the town hall; citizens of other EU countries can vote in municipal elections too.
service-public.fr ↗See where you’re registered and which polling station is yours.
service-public.fr ↗Council meetings are public; the agenda and minutes are posted at the town hall and usually on its website.
service-public.fr ↗Opening hours, address and phone number of the mairie of Moulins in the public services directory.
lannuaire.service-public.fr ↗Who can stand, how lists are formed and the deadlines, from the Interior ministry.
interieur.gouv.fr ↗What this data can and can’t tell you
- Mayors and councilors. From the Interior ministry’s national register of elected officials (RNE) as published on August 11, 2026: name, office and start dates, nothing else. The register counts a mayor as a councilor too; the page counts each person once. It isn’t a live roll: resignations and replacements after that date aren’t shown, and no party is inferred for any official.
- How the council is elected. Since March 2026 every commune elects its council from lists (a 2025 law extended list voting to communes under 1,000). A list with more than half the votes in the first round wins; otherwise lists with 10% or more can go on to a second round, where the list ahead wins. It gets half the seats, and the rest are shared in proportion among lists with 5% or more. The council then elects the mayor and the deputy mayors.
- The label beside a list. The political nuance the prefecture gave the list for the ministry’s results (Divers droite, Union de la gauche…), shown as published. It isn’t the list’s own description; many lists, most in small communes, have none.
- The commune’s money. OFGL’s consolidated accounts from the DGFiP, 2018 to 2025; 2025 is provisional. Spending and investment leave out loan repayments; running costs are part of spending. Debt is what was owed at the end of the year.
- Per resident. Divided by the DGFiP’s population for that year (population totale, which counts some people, such as boarding students, in two communes), so it can differ from the census figure elsewhere on the site.
- The medians. Beside the town’s figure, the median of compared communes in its département and in France (those with an overall grade). A commune’s spending follows its size and its role: one that runs a pool or a theater for the villages around it spends more per resident.
Questions about Moulins’s town hall
Who is the mayor of Moulins?
Benoit Faivre, mayor since March 27, 2026, according to the Interior ministry’s register of elected officials (August 11, 2026).
How many councilors does Moulins have?
The Moulins municipal council has 33 members, the mayor and 9 deputy mayors included.
Who won the 2026 municipal elections in Moulins?
ENSEMBLE POUR MOULINS, in the second round on March 22, 2026, with 46.6% of the votes; it holds 24 of the 33 seats.
What was the turnout in Moulins?
51.9% of registered voters voted in the first round on March 15, 2026; the median of compared French communes was 57.4%.
When are the next municipal elections in Moulins?
Councils are elected for six years, so the next general municipal elections are due in March 2032. A council can be re-elected sooner if it loses too many members.
How much debt does Moulins have?
€21.9M at the end of 2025, €1,101 per resident; the median of compared French communes was €748.
Which intercommunality is Moulins part of?
Moulins is part of the Communauté d'agglomération Moulins Communauté, which runs the services its communes share.
Sources: Interior ministry RNE, August 11, 2026 · Interior ministry, municipal results 2026 · OFGL consolidated commune accounts 2018–2025 · INSEE COG 2026 and BANATIC (January 2025) for the intercommunality. Under the Licence Ouverte / Open Licence 2.0 (Etalab).
Contains public sector information under the Licence Ouverte / Open Licence 2.0 (Etalab): INSEE, DGFiP, the Interior Ministry’s statistics service (SSMSI), the Ministry of Education (DEPP), the Health Ministry’s statistics service (DREES) and the Housing Ministry (Carte des loyers). Commune boundaries: IGN Admin Express.